Guitar Virtuoso Joe Pass [4 CD's BOX SET] Artist: Joe Pass Title Of Album: Guitar Virtuoso Year

Of Release: November 18, 1997 Label: Pablo Number of Discs: 4 Format: Box set Genre: Jazz lbel: Pablo : Jazz / Bop Track List: Disc: 1 1. Cheek To Cheek 2. Blues For Fred/They All Laughed 3. Hight And Day 4. Here's That Rainy Day 5. Have You Met Miss Jones? 6. Passanova 7. Sultry 8. Indian Summer 9. Lush Life 10. Weaselocity 11. Giant Steps 12. Misty 13. Blues For Basie 14. Star Eyes 15. Blues For Angel 16. Song For Ellen 17. How Deep Is The Ocean? Disc: 2 1. Relaxin' At Camarillo 2. Tenderly 3. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You? 4. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 5. Samba De Orfeu 6. Seulb 7. Riff Blues 8. Bluesology 9. Cotton Tall 10. O Barquinho (Little Boat) 11. The Gentle Rain (Chuva Delicada) 12. As Long As I Live 13. It Ain't Neccessarily So 14. D-Joe 15. Anouman 16. Belleville Disc: 3 1. Eric's Smoozie Blues

2. Beautiful Love 3. A Time For Love 4. Tarde 5. Gentle Tears 6. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) 7. Oleo 8. Blues For Monty 9. Stompin' At The Savoy 10. Ornithology 11. Samba De Orfeu 12. Dnna Lee 13. Sweet Georgia Brown Disc: 4 1. You Took Advantage Of Me 2. All Too Soon 3. I Didn't Know About You 4. You Go To My Head 5. Easy Living 6. Why Don't You Do Right? 7. Alone Together 8. Balleywick 9. S'il Vous Plait 10. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) 11. Tricrotism 12. Blues For 2 13. Dindi 14. Takeoff 15. My Old Flame 16. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 17. Autumn Leaves Personnel includes: Joe Pass (guitar); Jim Hughart, Colin Bailey, Ray Brown, Bobby Durham, Herb Elli s, Oscar Peterson, Plas Johnson, Gerald Wiggins, Andy Simpkins, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Duke Ellington, Louie Bellson, Paulinho Da Costa, Oscar Castro Neves, Cla udio Slon, Octavio Bailly, Don Gruisin, Jimmy Rowles, Shelly Manne, Frank Severi no, Monty Budwig, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, Ella Fitzgerald, Zoot Sims, Sar ah Vaughan, Harold Jones.

Review As this lavishly boxed, four-CD distillation of his Pablo sessions proves, Joe P ass was probably the guitar-playing equivalent of Art Tatum on the Norman Granz roster -- not only for his vast output, but also for the all-encompassing, almos t orchestral way in which he got around his instrument. The set is divided equal ly into four sections -- disc one for his astounding solo electric and acoustic guitar sides, disc two for studio recordings with various groups, disc three for various live recordings solo and with groups, disc four the delicate Ella Fitzg erald and other duo partner sessions and quartet pieces backing Sarah Vaughan. T hough the box is not in chronological order -- which is not necessary here, sinc e Pass was essentially a finished, non-evolving artist when he joined Pablo -- J im Ferguson's helpful commentary on the sessions is chronologically organized, b alancing out Benny Green's personalized disc-by-disc analysis of the tracks. A c ouple of tracks with a modern Brazilian rhythm section also stand out, as does t he supercharged "Sweet Georgia Brown" with Oscar Peterson and Niels-Henning Orst

ed Pedersen, and the set's lengthiest item, a fond ten-and-a-half-minute take ou t on "Stompin' at the Savoy" live at Donte's club in North Hollywood, CA. The la tter track and a scant two others are the only ones new to CD, and there are no unreleased goods to be heard, but with five hours of Pass taken a little at a ti me, this box will wear very well over the years. by Richard S. Ginell